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Just a quick AVSForum poll on what AVS Forum members have setup for their speaker configuration. (If you have more than one setup, please just answer for the main setup as we know some of you have a listening room as well as a theater for example.)

Simple as that really, do you use 2 channel, 5.1, 7.1, or more?

Note...The .1 can be .2 etc when it comes to subs, we are just using the common terms.

I ask every person I know that has a 7.1 setup to name a movie they've seen that takes advantage of the 7.1 speakers, and none of them has ever been able to answer me. I agree with the previous poster that if more material were available, I'd upgrade.

I ask every person I know that has a 7.1 setup to name a movie they've seen that takes advantage of the 7.1 speakers, and none of them has ever been able to answer me. I agree with the previous poster that if more material were available, I'd upgrade.

I have a 7.1 system with the movie 3:10 to Yuma being the only one using a 7.1 LPCM track on it. When I bought the system I wanted to begin with the 7.1 so I wouldn't have to add it later on when I buy more movies recorded in 7.1. This will save me a headache later on in rewiring and setting up.

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I have a mixed set of 5.1 speakers. I hardly ever use the setup, but maybe that'll change now that I've upgraded all the video components, including an Oppo BDP-93. I have an issue with the center channel in my HT receiver, so I sometimes just bypass it and go with a phantom center.

I don't see any need to go 7.1. As it is, my rears are on the side of the primary seating and not behind. There's no place for me to put another pair.

Almost all Lionsgate Blurays are 7.1. Regardless, a good receiver will matrix the 5.1 into 7.1 and will sound amazing and not fake.

Agreed. I have a Denon AVR-988 for my pre/pro and it does matrix 5.1 into the back surrounds. Once you get 7.1 it really is hard to go back. Plus older dvd's like the Lord of the Rings Extended Editions have a DTS-ES 6.1 soundtrack and having the 2 rear surrounds makes a huge difference.